Re: FLASH: Flash text handling isnt up to par.

[John Croteau]

Hi Lulu,


> Is that even the case when you DO NOT *Break Apart* fonts?

> I have always used the *Break Apart* function on type assuming that if I

> did not the person would see garbage unless I used Helvetica, Times or

> Arial.


Yes, for each and every character used in each and every font that used

in your presentation the character's shape will be saved in Flash. See

your report. This is why there is saving in keeping the number of Fonts

used down. If you use an 'J' in Times and an 'J' in Helvetica then you

will save a shape for each. But if you use a hundred Js in Times then

you will be saving the shape information only once. To see how much Font

shape costs in a presentation look at the bottom of the report. In the

report it shows what characters in what fonts and how much they cost in

bytes.


Breaking apart a font character in of itself does not necessarily

increase (or reduce) file size but it creates a non-font object (or

symbol). If the same character is still used as a font character then

the broken apart character has added to file size because of the

duplicate (the shape saved as a font and also as a regular shape or

symbol). If a character that is broken apart was the only character used

in a Font then the file size is not normally changed by much.


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